26 Awesome (Slightly Awkward) Chocolate Facts!
August 14, 2015
Is crushing it at chocolate trivia the prize accomplishment of your life?
Or, do you just crave more chocolate knowledge like you do the sweet candy bars it makes?
Read on, and enjoy these 26 awesome and slightly awkward chocolate facts!
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- The Latin name for the cacao tree is "Theobroma Cacao" which translates to "food of the Gods".
- Cacao farmers don't take radios to work with them, because playing music attracts snakes! Yikes!
- The Aztecs believed anyone who ate cacao beans would be blessed with spiritual wisdom, energy, and enhanced sexual powers. #awkward
- You can gather enough energy from consuming one singular chocolate chip to walk 150 feet.
- It's been reported that the Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate daily. He noted, “A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food”.
- When cacao beans were brought to Spain in the 16th century they were exclusively used by royalty and the aristocracy, who drank chocolate in bed at breakfast. Basically, they were living like kids on a Saturday, but every day!
- Mayan emperors were often buried with jars of chocolate by their side. Wouldn't we all like to take our favorite chocolates into the afterlife?
- Several of the big players in the chocolate industry today were founded with money from Quaker families (Fry’s, Cadbury's, Terry’s) who wanted to see chocolate rise up to replace alcohol. They saw the consumption of alcohol as a sin, but chocolate consumption as just a minor vice. Now that's some motivation for helping along chocolate production!
- "Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat" was this candy bar’s slogan for a sum-total 47 years! That's nearly twice my lifetime!Love Learning about Chocolate? Sign-Up Today for Online Chocolate Classes!
- Nearly all cacao trees grow within 20 degrees of the equator, and 75% grow within just eight degrees of either side of it.
- A cup of cocoa - using pure cocoa powder - has double the amount of antioxidants in green tea.
- Chocolate has over 400 distinct smells. In comparison, a rose has only fourteen. Next year, ask for chocolate roses for Valentine's Day!
- When polled, UK residents prefer a chocolate bar over an extravagant vacation. It’s the small things that make us happy!
- It's been reported that 66% of chocolate is consumed between meals, and 22% between 8 PM and midnight. I guess we're all noshing away at the same time in the evenings, folks!
- German chocolate cake was in fact named after Sam German, an American, and it didn't originate in Germany.
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- The smell of chocolate alone causes relaxation by reducing theta activity in the brain, which is associated with relaxation.
- Chocolate is featured in Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte when a maiden enters a chocolate shop carrying a chocolate pot and she's eventually tempted to have a taste!
- Chocolate was included in rations for soldiers in World War II.
- "The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain." - Thomas Jefferson. I think he was right.
- A Hershey’s bar was dug up after 60 years from Admiral Richard Byrd’s cache at the South Pole. Having been frozen all those years, it was still edible. Who tested that out is what I'd like to know!
- The largest chocolate bar ever manufactured was in Italy in the year 2000. The bar weighed 5,000 lbs! Can you imagine nibbling on that?!
- Chocolate syrup was used to depict blood in the iconic shower scene of Hitchcock's film, Psycho.
- An average American will eat about 10 pounds of chocolate each year.
- In 1932, the original Three Musketeers bar had three pieces of candy - one chocolate, one vanilla and one strawberry.
- The town of Derry Church, PA was renamed Hershey to honor Milton Hershey and his candy bar factory.
175 more to be exact. In 201 Fun Chocolate Facts and Chocolate Trivia Quiz you get the facts and also chocolate trivia questions to stump your friends.
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Did you learn something new? The majority of facts on this list were brand-spanking new to me, and I hope you enjoyed them as well!
Content Developer at Chocolate University Online
All her life, Ashleigh has enjoyed, indulged in, and spread the gift of chocolate. She says, "life's too short to skip dessert." Ashleigh joined CUO to help share on our blog and social networks more about the wonders of chocolate.
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Re your number 11: you should point out that it should be undutched Cocoa. Dutching the cocoa kills the flavonoids that produce the antioxidants in our bodies. Look for cocoa that has not been alkalized and has been processed at the lowest possible temperature as excessive heat kills the good qualities in the cocoa. Raw cocoa is always best!